Just Another Life; Chapter 1

Ahhh finally school is done, I finally graduated and I am heading to the U.S, after years of begging them to allow me study abroad they finally accepted, and now I am soaking in reality while laying on the warm sand, sunrays hitting the water reflecting light, seeing kids building sand castles god this is the dream, “come on lets go swim” said Maryam “let me enjoy this moment” I replied “blah blah blah yess you are spending the summer here and you will study here while I will be stuck in Dubai the least very least you can do is swim with me” leave it to my sister to be a party popper “god fine” we heading to the water my feet sinking in the sand with every step, as I put my feet in the water it was cold, and I feel something cold on my face that was my sister splashing water at me, I jumped over her soaking her with cold water, we saw our cousin coming in to swim we were thinking of a scheme “no don’t you even think about it, if any of you touch me I will make sure her death looks like an accident” said Fatima “we weren’t even thinking of doing anything” I said although we were, after a while of waves splashing our faces we got tired, we decided to go back and sit under the warm sun, on my I saw this little girl crying “hey” I said “hi” she answered whipping her tears “what’s wrong” “I wanted to play with my brother because I had no one to play with and all he would do is scream”

“Ill play with you” I held her hand and went on playing “who is your brother” she pointed at a very skinny guy sitting next to him was another guy who was fit, when we finished I walked to him “why do you treat your little sister like that all she wanted was to play with you she has no one else but you, you should be ashamed of yourself” and then I pointed at his friend “and you should advice him to take good care of his sister” and I just walked away I would pay anything just to see their facial expression as I walked away, but I will not surrender and look back, I sat beside Mariam and Fatima as I see a shadow come over me I open my eyes to see it was him her brother “hello” he said “hi” I said with keeping the straightest most tough face I could pull of at the time “yalla t3aly ill show you something” I was shocked you can see it on my face “why are you shocked is it because I am Emirati” he said soo confidently, if I knew he was Emirati I would have never said anything and he has the audacity to tell me to go with him somewhere “are you crazy you know our culture and my mom and aunt are sitting right there, and I will never go anywhere with you not in a million years” he turned to them and said “5alo 3ady I take hamda to see something right?” he asked so calmly “haih hamad “ she answered what they know each other what going on “well I don’t want” I put my glasses on my eyes acting like everything is normal “yalla 3ad”he held my hand and pulled up “aggressive aren’t we” “are you scared from me that’s why you don’t want to come” “no no no this is not working on me making some competitive thing so I can go with you” “just go”said Mariam “you are annoying us” continued Fatima  “fine” I answered.